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Tango01 | 12 Jun 2016 1:06 p.m. PST |
….Pickett's Charge. "IF GETTYSBURG WAS the decisive battle of the American Civil War, then Pickett's Charge could be described as the pivotal moment of the entire conflict. Named for Major General George Pickett, a flamboyant 38-year-old West Pointer from Virginia, the disastrous July 3, 1863 assault saw as many as 15,000 Confederate soldiers advance nearly a mile up Cemetery Ridge in a final go-for-broke bid to shatter the Union army. It was an unmitigated disaster. In less than an hour, Federal artillery fire and musketry shredded the Rebels leaving the field littered with thousands of bleeding and mutilated bodies. Many claim that the South never fully recovered from the slaughter it suffered during Pickett's Charge. And while the war would continue for another two years, the Confederacy had reached a symbolic "high water mark" at that fateful moment – never again would it be presented with so great a chance to achieve victory. Here are 12 essential facts about this legendary and disastrous attack…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
138SquadronRAF | 13 Jun 2016 7:48 a.m. PST |
Thank you cousin. "It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago; or to anyone who ever sailed a skiff under a quilt sail, the moment in 1492 when somebody thought This is it: the absolute edge of no return, to turn back now and make home or sail irrevocably on and either find land or plunge over the world's roaring rim." William Faulkner, "Intruder in the Dust" Faulkner knows the South better than I do, but from what I've gathered living in the US for 20 years things haven't changed since 1948 or 1863 for that matter. |
Tango01 | 13 Jun 2016 10:20 a.m. PST |
No mention my dear cousin… (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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